March 10, 2011
Microsoft announced that Kinect has hit 10 million units sold. Despite the dearth of games to play, this makes it the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever. [more inside]
Team Fortress 2: The Demo Knight Holy shit.
A voxel-based quick and dirty take on the Minecraft engine with physics baked-in from Introversion's Chris Delay. Neat. [via RPS]
March 9, 2011
In response to user complaints about a recent wave of bannings, the community director for League of Legends offered to publicly disclose the reasons for bans for the first 5 people to ask.
For more stories about people being banned, you can check out Why Was I Banned? to see examples of Microsoft's explanations to people who have been banned from XBox Live.
Croteam, developer of the Serious Sam series, has asked 3 indie studios to make spinoff games taking place in the Serious Sam universe These developers are Dutch duo Vlambeer of Super Crate Box fame; Be-Rad Entertainment, makers of Lame Castle; and Mommy's Best Games, who brought us the XBLA game Weapon of Choice. The games will be released, presumably for free, as the release date for Serious Same 3: BFE grows closer.
Ubisoft has released the soundtrack to Beyond Good and Evil for free to coincide with the game's HD release on the Playstation Nework and Xbox Live Marketplace.
Quake 1 Done 100% Quickest is a run through all of Quake on Nightmare skill, going through the levels as fast as possible, killing every single monster and finding every single secret in every single map of Quake. This is the sequel to the very popular - and outdated - 'Quake done 100% Quicker' which was released way back on the 5th of January, 2000. Speedrunning has come a long way since then. [more inside]
March 8, 2011
It's only 5 seconds long, but this silly Halo video manages to channel the stop-motion charm of Robot Chicken. [Via Kotaku]
A Blizzard Entertainment 20th Anniversary mini-doco has "a message from Blizzard Entertainment’s founders, interviews with developers, video retrospectives, and more." See also: an interview with Blizzard COO Paul Sams.
A lengthy interview with Notch and the rest of the Mojang crew about Minecraft and more.
Jeffrey Matulef, one of the regular contributors to the Big Red Potion podcast, shares some thoughts on difficulty levels in games.
March 7, 2011
Wired is reporting that a judge has granted Sony access to see the IP addresses of all visitors to George Hotz's website (click at your own risk, I suppose) since January of 2009. [more inside]
Here are some games for you to play. SpaceChimp commands you to play them!
Dodge | Red Riot | Survival Lab [more inside]
March 6, 2011
Can't wait for The Elder Scrolls next installment? Nehrim is a total conversion of Oblivion, created by a group of extremely dedicated Germans. It weighs in at 1.6Gb, and looks quite pretty indeed. [more inside]
March 5, 2011
Gabe Newell's Steam username: gaben@valvesoftware.com. His password: moolyftw. He invites you to try steal his cookies account. But thanks to the new security measures introduced today, he's pretty sure you can't. [more inside]
March 4, 2011
Gaming Luminaries wax all gooey at RPS over Old Man Murray, which was almost kind of and then again not deleted from Wikipedia recently.
March 3, 2011
This won't make much sense if you haven't watched this. But if you have, then it's pretty neat.
The "Failure Workshop" at GDC yesterday featured developers presenting about games that had failed and what they learned from the experience.
Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, made a somewhat unexpected appearance on the panel in which he revealed that early purchasers of Elemental: War of Magic would receive a free copy of the expansion pack. [more inside]
March 2, 2011
Balloon Diaspora is a short, surreal, point-and-click adventure game. Your balloon needs repair. Talk to the citizens of this strange land, win their friendship, and repair your craft. Free download (63 MB) available for Windows and Mac.
Starcraft community hero Day9 gives a two-hour history of his life as a Starcraft player. [more inside]
March 1, 2011
Browser-based gaming service Gaikai has launched. They join OnLive in the cloud gaming arena.
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How Long to Beat? - a list of the average time taken to beat a game, based on data from NeoGAF forum members. There is no entry for World of Warcraft.
February 28, 2011
Quake 2 ported to HTML5 and javascript and running natively in a webkit browser. What a world, what a world...
Want code? Code is here.
February 27, 2011
A common problem in game design is that of the difficulty curve. Ideally, the game gets harder as it progresses so that it keeps providing a challenge to the player. However, this is often not the case; as you progress through the game, you unlock more powers/abilities/weapons/etc., making the endgame comparatively trivial. Yahtzee, after considering this problem, came up with an interesting solution.
Free JavaScript Game Frameworks for making of the games and the fun.
The BBC has announced a Doctor Who MMO, to be developed by the company that made Puzzle Pirates.
[more inside]
February 26, 2011
Article: Top 10 Secrets of RDR I saw this the other day when looking for walkthrough advice and found it funny, during reading and especially after unlocking some of these 'achievements'.
Ars Technica's review of indie futuristic crime adventure game Gemini Rue. [more inside]
Indie developer Capybara Games has released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Superbrothers - Sword & Sworcery EP . Looks optimized for iPad, but also coming to iPhone & iPod Touch.
February 24, 2011
Shacknews redesigns. From a firehose spray of Too Much Happening On One Page to... a lot less happening. It certainly looks bloggy now. Not sure yet if that's a good thing or not.
Following up on last year's 14 best videogame couples, gamesradar came up with a list of the Top 7 Disastrous Game Romances.
The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Trailer , fresh off the video presses. Looks dungeony and dragony!
February 23, 2011
The beta for Dino D-Day is coming out next week. From the official website: Adolf Hitler has succeeded in resurrecting dinosaurs. The reptilian horde has trampled Europe and the Mediterranean. Can nothing stop the Nazi’s dinosaur army? (via RPS)
You can go inside enemies! I understand this.
I go inside the next enemy I find. Silly blobby enemies. Wait, can I—
I go inside the next enemy I find – again. I’m inside an enemy inside an enemy. I understand this! This is great.
I head inside another enemy. I keep going. I am inside an enemy inside an enemy inside an enemy inside an enemy inside a power-up.
Inside a power-up? Damn.
I don’t understand this.
Indie darling Jason Rohrer (of Passage fame) releases Inside a Star-Filled Sky [more inside]
Why do liberals play computer games like conservatives? Monica Potts of The American Prospect seems to have only played two video games. And both made her feel constrained by the system, man. [more inside]
February 22, 2011
PC Gamer commissioned artist Drew Northcott to do mashups of video games and the works of artists like Van Gogh and Dali for use on their back page starting in 2007. They have been posted online for your enjoyment.
February 21, 2011
Game Boy on a Oscilloscope Useful? Not really. The latest 20th century hardware blend? Yes. Includes a description of how it's done.
Rock Paper Shotgun Versus Fox News: Round Two In which the idiots at Fox News continue to be idiots, and a losing battle is bravely fought. [more inside]
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